Chapters authored
Strategies to Enhance Compliance to Health and Safety Protocols within the South African Mining Environment
Occupational health focuses on promotive and preventive and curative health. The occupational health practitioners have the responsibility to guide management and employees on the occupational legislative obligations aiming to safeguard legal compliance at the workplace. Additionally, it is the responsibility of the health professionals within the mining industry to provide primary, secondary and tertiary prevention strategies to improve the health and safety of workers. However, the prevalence of work-related diseases such as noise induced hearing loss, silicosis and the occurrence of accidents in the mining industry is an alarming factor. Systematic review method was adopted to identify and screen relevant citations. This book chapter aims to review and discuss existing literature on health and safety strategies to enhance safety compliance within the South African mining industry.
Part of the book: Primary Health Care
Utilisation of Digital Health in Early Detection and Treatment of Pre-Eclampsia in Primary Health Care Facilities South Africa: Literature Review
Gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia are the most prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa leading to undesirable perinatal and maternal outcomes. In South Africa, a high rate of maternal death was noted due to pre-eclampsia. However, the use of digital maternal health in South Africa has become of significance for reinforcement of health care. Digital health initiatives such as mobile health technologies were developed to improve better access to communities in low and middle-income countries. The implementation and practices of digital health seem to be growing expandable to achieve the UHC goals in the provision of care to all globally and nationally. This review aims to review existing literature on the use of digital maternal health to minimise admission of pre-eclampsia and early identification of gravid women who are at risk of developing pre-eclampsia.
Part of the book: Primary Health Care
Obstacles in the Nursing Training Programs
The chapter aims to discuss obstacles that affect the successful implementation of nursing training programs from learner nurses’ perspectives. The scope of the obstacles is limited to the clinical and classroom settings, where the nursing curriculum is implemented, and therefore the chapter will discuss obstacles to the nursing training program in hospitals/clinics and educational institutions. The chapter is a summary of a quantitative cross-sectional research study that collected data from all 190 learner nurses. Learner nurses were sampled with a stratified random sampling, which resulted in 129 samples of learner nurses. An electronic self-designed questionnaire written in English was sent to learner nurses via their university students’ email to complete it. Descriptive statistics were utilized to describe the frequency of learner nurses regarding the R425 program curriculum review. The source of information, in this chapter, is the research finding obtained from learner nurses, using a quantitative research approach and literature, which highlight that the success of health education could be observed when barriers to nursing program implementation have been eliminated. The chapter provides learning opportunities to program designers and leaders of the educational and healthcare facilities where the nursing training programs are implemented.
Part of the book: Health and Educational Success